Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-14
\ TOWN IN TROUBLE.
The Peculiar Situation Up at MinGO
junction.

The Peculiar Situation Up at Minco
Junction.
Kicking against q railroad company is
not always profitable thing, rs witness
the state of affairs existing up at MingO
Last evenings Steubenville Herald had the
following account of the somewhat anOma-
lous situation in the town:
The thriving village of Mingo below
this city is at present being fenced in, or
perhaps, more literally speaking, fenced
out. The cause OF the proceeding is diff
ference between the railroad and village
corporation authorities extending back
some time. Not long ago it was given
out that MingO was 10 have new freight
and passenger station, i'll place of the pres
ent inadequate accommodations At that
place, but that too is indefinitely post
pOned. The beginning OF the difficulty
was over a strip of ground on the east side
of the c. & T. railroad track at present
occupied by the county road, but
which it is supposed will be
abandoned by the county author
tiles as soon rs the new hillside road is
completed. The railroad company pro-
iected 1000 foot siding too nicely to
cover up this road and add to shipping
facilities. Ut is not supposed there was
any plan of heading of the the c., l.. q W.
But the Council was too quick for them,
and declaring the road to be one of the
streets OF the village, gave it the name of
Laughlin street, and occupiedit. This was
proyocation No. /. Then there was an or
dinance fixing the speed of railroad trains
through the village at not exceeding eight
miles per hour, which had heen allowed
to fall into n state of innOcuous desuetude.
But through the effect of the new
administration or as conse-
ouence of the Interstate Commerce
law it was put into effect, and passen-
ger engineer who ran his train through the
precinct ut rate somewhere between %
and 80 miles an hour was brought before
Mayor O'Connell on his return trip and
fined $50 and costs. 4 freight engineer
who likewise dehed the majesty OF the or
dinance was also fined This was the straw,
and Superintendents Taylor and Thomas
Immediately proceeded to the seat OF war
where a council was held The first re-
suit of the conference was the announce
ment that Mingo would have no new de
pot. The next was an edict TO inclOse
the Pan Handle railroad with n tight
board fence eight feet high clear through
the village, having u gate at the
single public crossing above the station,
thus enabling trains TO run through at any
speed desired This fence is now in pro
cess of construction; and it need scarcely he
said is not highly ornamental, completely
dividing the town into two parts. 1t is
also stated that after June |, no Pan-lian-
die trains will stop at MingO except the
midnight mail going west and the early
morning mail coming east 50 that deni-
zens of that village desiring to reach
points on that road must either arise at
unseemly hours or come to Steubenville
on the c. Il r., and take n Panhandle
train here.
Public opinion in the village is divided
on the matter some uphOlding the author
tiles to the fullest extent, while Others
think it would have been better to adopt a
more cOnciliatOry course in reference to the
speed of trains.